Sit Down, Magic Maze, Strategy Card Game, Ages 8+, 1-8 Players, 15+ Minutes Playing Time

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Beyond this, players do not control pawns but actions, and these actions are micro, often as simple as moving a pawn in a single direction. Hanabi’s cooperative hand management is enchanting, the narrative in Robinson Crusoe makes the teamwork acceptable, and there are few thrills that equal solving a case together in Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective or exiting an escape room with skins intact.

In a turn based game where you have the luxury of time it would be bad enough, but here every second you spend is genuinely wasted. Four Hero Pawns in different colours, accompanied by symbol stickers which allow play for those with altered colour perception. Gathers information for WordPress by themselves, first party analytics tool about how WP services are used. The last action that you might have is the Escalator action, which allows you to simply move a character up or down an escalator.Shuffle the seven Action Tiles used for one-player games (number in bottom right corner) and place them face-down, ensuring the North Arrow on each is aligned with the Starting Maze Tile. I think they chose to use pawns because they’re easy to pick up and put down, but it would have been great if the characters actually looked like characters. Players really do have to work together to move through the maze and to spot the twists and turns where travel will be difficult. If only one player is watching the timer and trying to get other players to take it seriously, even the red “do something” pawn will not save the group.

One I didn’t mention though is a little more personal – they really make you question your own judgement. It also allows “alpha gamer” quarterbacks–the bane of most cooperative games–an outlet for their direction of the other players without the annoyance of actually directing their moves. That last one is smarting now, because your only training is in adventuring, and you can’t adventure without gear, and without adventuring, there’s no hope of paying your cable bill.

It’s a small co-op game where you’re trying to get 4 heroes to their ‘theft’ tiles then get them to the exit(s) before the timer runs out. So for a games award that rewards family friendly games and laughter this is definitely a good choice.